Update

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Hello to all,

It has been awhile now since I have checked in with the group, so I am taking

this opportunity to talk about my developments. This is about my problem I

developed concerning blood in my urine. I don't know if this is related to the

HCV or not but the last I reported was that I had a scope done in my bladder and

they found a tumor that was bleeding. So I had a surgery done just this past

Friday at the Mayo Clinic in MN. As I write this, on Monday morning, I am still

sitting on my hospital bed, waiting to get checked out. We have had a pretty

major winter storm come through and I have been stuck here because of the

weather. I think they got around 17 inches of snow on Sat. Anyway, when they did

the surgery, they found a second small tumor and they removed that along with

the first one. they also put a stint in the opening from the kidney to the

bladder(temporary) and I am waiting for the pathology report to come back to see

how much cancer there was and if they will have to do more. The urologist seems

to be leaning toward total removal of my bladder with a stoma put in and an

external bag...for the rest of my life!!!! I am trying to deal with that right

now and am hoping for some less extreme solutions. The Hepatology team is also

going to have a say in what happens, so all I can do is wait and take it day at

a time. I will try to post now and again to let ya'll know what happens.

thanks for listening!

RHSteve